If Language - 2 Angebote vergleichen
Bester Preis: € 13,83 (vom 22.04.2017)1
If Language
EN USISBN: 0973718161 bzw. 9780973718164, in Englisch, Book Thug, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
education and reference,linguistics,literature and fiction,poetry,words language and grammar, Poetry. "Greg Betts is writing anagrams. Is his project zany? You bet it is"- Christian Bok. Containing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text, Gregory Betts' IF LANGUAGE takes a one-time parlor game to its evolutionary extreme. Each poem is exactly 525 letters. The book asks: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts explores this question with humor, intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration. "If language is an economy, then Gregory Betts' IF LANGUAGE skips the boom and the bust and revels in the echo" - Derek Beaulieu.
education and reference,linguistics,literature and fiction,poetry,words language and grammar, Poetry. "Greg Betts is writing anagrams. Is his project zany? You bet it is"- Christian Bok. Containing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text, Gregory Betts' IF LANGUAGE takes a one-time parlor game to its evolutionary extreme. Each poem is exactly 525 letters. The book asks: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts explores this question with humor, intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration. "If language is an economy, then Gregory Betts' IF LANGUAGE skips the boom and the bust and revels in the echo" - Derek Beaulieu.
2
Symbolbild
If Language
EN NWISBN: 9780973718164 bzw. 0973718161, in Englisch, BookThug, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, In Stock, plus shipping.
Gregory Betts, Books, Fiction and Literature, If Language, Most anagrammaticians satisfy their urge with the rearranged name of a celebrity (Marshall McLuhan = Malls launch harm) or perhaps, if more adventurous, a familiar aphorism (The Medium is the Message = The Media is the Muse’s Gem). The true devotees of the clan turn to games like Scrabble and Humbug. Gregory Betts’ If Language takes this one-time parlour game to its evolutionary extreme, constructing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text. Each poem is exactly 525 letters; the same letters that echo throughout the book is radically different forms. These poems test the endless possibilities of the constraint. They tell the mystical history of anagrams, from its use by early scientists to escape Christian zealots to Rosicrucian symbology to Greek mythology to Kabbalism. They explore how individualities happen in words and limited vocabularies. If Language asks the question: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts uses his own experiences, relationships and uncertainties to explore this question with humour, with intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration.
Gregory Betts, Books, Fiction and Literature, If Language, Most anagrammaticians satisfy their urge with the rearranged name of a celebrity (Marshall McLuhan = Malls launch harm) or perhaps, if more adventurous, a familiar aphorism (The Medium is the Message = The Media is the Muse’s Gem). The true devotees of the clan turn to games like Scrabble and Humbug. Gregory Betts’ If Language takes this one-time parlour game to its evolutionary extreme, constructing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text. Each poem is exactly 525 letters; the same letters that echo throughout the book is radically different forms. These poems test the endless possibilities of the constraint. They tell the mystical history of anagrams, from its use by early scientists to escape Christian zealots to Rosicrucian symbology to Greek mythology to Kabbalism. They explore how individualities happen in words and limited vocabularies. If Language asks the question: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts uses his own experiences, relationships and uncertainties to explore this question with humour, with intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration.
Lade…